• sploosh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not many people live out there. Not many macro-scale animals, either. Very, very few plants. Southeast Oregon/Northwest Nevada is very, very desolate so mining isn’t going to be too awful in terms of ecological impacts that we pay attention to.

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      1 year ago

      It’s in the watershed of a major tributary to the snake river. This isn’t a matter of what goes on a few miles from the dig site. I grew up along a creek with mine runoff in it. After a big enough rainstorm it wasn’t uncommon to see a bunch of dead fish and frogs and such. Yellow foam on the water all the time. There will be a cost to this.

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        1 year ago

        Oh for sure, but it’s not going to get reported on because the point source is very far away from metropolitan and farming areas.